Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1887-11-16

ward, and nearly one-tnird OF our cu,irc
population reside in these cities and towns.
/ In 1850 there were $50 towns which had a
population each of 4, 900 and upward. Over
/ twelve hundred cities, villages and smaller
/ places now have public water-works. and
majority of them gas-worl1s also. Public
1 improvements and convenienccs of this
! class have grown up almost entirely within
] the past thirty years.
/ Eachman works directly for others and
! Indirectly for himself You do something
/ for me and lido something for you, is the
/ principle, but with a thousand complexities,
/ upon which organized society exists. NY
i labor for the combination of men in civil So
! ciety secures me their recognition, and
/ makes me a partalzer of the common storeof
4 food, clothing and shelter. Each man is dk.
/ pendent upon the recognition Of his fellow
men, and the instant that recognition is
/ withdrawn he is the most helpless of beings.
| To-day men can only live in combination
/ with their fellow-men, and all are virtually
dependent
The average annual death rate of the world
is b for every 1000 persons. The average
death rate for the leading cities of the Unit
ed States is 221 in every 1000 persons. Old
cities like Paris, Vienna and Berlin APP
proach the worlds average in their death
rate, Ia 1885 the death rate for the City of
Mexico was IS for every 1900 persons, in
Vera Cruz il was 90
In a single year the number of deaths Of
human beings is nearly 50,000,000. During
the time-an hour and three-fourths an
ordinary Sunday morning church service
about 10,000 persons die. In the hours of a
single day the number of deaths in the hui
man family equals that of the population Of
a city Ike Detroit In one weeks time as
many die as make the number of people IN
Cook County, III. The time elapsing be-
tween one new moon and another witness
es the death of as many huHlan beings as
now compose the population of the State of
Illinois. Every two seconds of time see
three human lives pass into the dark val
ley"
Notwithstanding the vastness of numbers
of the earth's population, the entire 1,5oO,-
OOO,OOO could stand upon tract of land ten
miles square and be comfortably seated
upon tract twenty miles square, or on less
than dozen townships, or on half of one of
oar larger counties, and with proper ar
rangemcnt OF telephones one man could ad-
dress the vast throng as one audience.
We are still far from condition of things
where all might be profitably and happily
employed. Only one-third t34 GS-l00 per
cent? Of our entire population in the United
States are now pursuing gainful occupa-
NluiAo1 anu iCSS lildl OuS-nall k9t Ol-lUU per
cent? of all the persons in the country
above tenyear of age arc so engaged. In
1880, with population of 81, l,l55, 7S3, those
engaged in gainful occupations were as fol-
lows
Ia professional and personal service. 4,074, ,e3S
In trade and transportation. .......... 1,S10256
IN manufacturing, mechanical and min
ihe PURSUITS 1857, lie
Total tal........ II 90, oo9
The idlers in our country are still numer-
Gus and have TO be cared for by the pro-
ducers These facts indicate, in emphatic
terms, that there should be many more
avenues opened where women and children
can, In pleasant and profitable work, take
rank as bread winners. There is no blight
which can fall upon any properly consti-
tued human being that is comparable with
enforced idleness. The philosopher who
SAID that the true benefactor of the race
was the man who could make two blades of
grass TO grow where only one grew before,
was right in a limited sense but to-day a
greater benefactor would be man who
could innugurate diversified industries that
would enable millions of hands now idle in
part to be usefully employed, for proper
and ludicioUs work is the greatest blessing
Tor man, woman and child